August 28, 2012

Packed with care

Luckily, we had bright sunshine for the day that our first year students arrived on campus. A swarm of upper class students in green t-shirts roamed the sidewalk in front of our residence hall, descending upon each car that pulled up. The student volunteers were so efficient at unloading the cars that I didn’t even help much. Mostly, my role was to patrol for anxious parents and go calm them down.

You can tell a lot about students by what they bring. Pretty much every student had a laptop computer, of course. But I also saw plants, packed lovingly into the backs of small cars. I saw several guitars, lots of bicycles, and at least one set of antlers. One smart mother had brought a bin of homemade chocolate chip cookies and was handing them out to the student volunteers. You can bet her daughter had plenty of help moving in.